neighbourhood in De Fryske Marren
Sint Nicolaasga
3,360 residents · postal code 8521 · Part of Sint Nicolaasga, De Fryske Marren
Plenty of space, less prosperity
Sint Nicolaasga is a village of just over three thousand residents at three hundred per square kilometre, and that translates into two high scores at once: a 9.3 for quiet & nature, with plenty of greenery and noise well below the national median, and a 9.2 for safety, with violence, property crime and vandalism all three far below the median.
Wealth & income comes nowhere near that. At 4.0, property value stays below the median, the top income group is thin and more than four in ten households are in the bottom one; only vacancy is exactly typical. What costs the most is the station: it is more than fifteen kilometres away, while the supermarket, GP and school are all within a kilometre.
- no. 3,667 of 13,075 neighbourhoods with a grade
- no. 11 of 68 in De Fryske Marren
How Sint Nicolaasga scores
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Is Sint Nicolaasga a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sint Nicolaasga comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Sint Nicolaasga is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes.
The figures ⌄Safety
Registered crimes per 1,000 people present per year: residents plus business activity. Figures for small neighbourhoods are smoothed.
In 2025, 58 crimes were recorded here. The figures above are per 1,000 people present (residents + businesses).
Tick = Dutch median
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The figures ⌄Amenities
Average distance to everyday amenities, compared with the Dutch median.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Wealth & income
What the homes are worth, what residents earn and how many homes stand empty. It describes the area, not the people living in it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Quiet & nature
How tightly the addresses sit together, how much noise there is, and how much green, trees and water surround it.
Not counted
Part of this score's subject, but not part of the grade.
Not part of the grade: air quality varies mostly between regions, barely between neighbourhoods within one municipality. WHO guideline: 5 µg/m³. Calculated annual mean, RIVM 2024.
Tick = Dutch median
The figures ⌄Families
How practical this area is with children: distance to school and childcare, and how many children already live here.
Tick = Dutch median
Who lives here
The age profile of Sint Nicolaasga looks much like that of the average Dutch neighbourhood.
Age profile
- 0–1514%
NL median 14%
- 15–2512%
NL median 11%
- 25–4522%
NL median 22%
- 45–6525%
NL median 28%
- 65+27%
NL median 22%
Share of residents per age group (CBS, 2025). All five bars share one scale, so their lengths can be compared with each other.
Average household size
2.3 — around the average
NL median 2.3
Single-person households
34% — more than average
NL median 31%
Households with children
33% — around the average
NL median 35%
Residents per km²
305 — far less densely populated than average
NL median 2,364
Tick = Dutch median. Households with children counts towards Families, population density towards Quiet & nature; the other figures here get no grade.
Frequently asked questions
Is Sint Nicolaasga a safe neighbourhood?
For 2025, Sint Nicolaasga comes out at 14 recorded crimes per 1,000 people present; the national middle is 24. That is low: Sint Nicolaasga is among the 20% of Dutch neighbourhoods with the fewest recorded crimes. The figure is about what the police record, not about the people who live there.
How much crime is there in Sint Nicolaasga?
In Sint Nicolaasga the police recorded 58 crimes in 2025: theft, burglary, violence and vandalism combined. The comparison figure above (14 per 1,000) is not simply that count divided by the number of residents: we count residents plus workplaces, so a shopping street or station is not unfairly penalised, and for small counts we pull the figure towards the national average — otherwise a single incident would make a small neighbourhood look unsafe.
How is the grade for Sint Nicolaasga calculated?
Sint Nicolaasga scores 7.9 as its total score. That grade is a national position: we weigh five equally heavy scores — safety, amenities, wealth & income, quiet & nature and families — and see where Sint Nicolaasga lands among every neighbourhood in the Netherlands. So it is not the mean of the five grades, but a place in the queue. All from open data published by CBS and the police.
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